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GitLab Quick Start Guide

GitLab Quick Start Guide

By : O'Grady
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GitLab Quick Start Guide

GitLab Quick Start Guide

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By: O'Grady

Overview of this book

Gitlab is an open source repository management and version control toolkit with an enterprise offering. This book is the ideal guide to GitLab as a version control system (VCS), issue management tool, and a continuous integration platform. The book starts with an introduction to GitLab, a walkthrough of its features, and explores concepts such as version control systems, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. It then takes you through the process of downloading and installing a local copy of the on-premise version of GitLab in Ubuntu and/or CentOS. You will look at some common work?ows associated with GitLab work?ow and learn about project management in GitLab. You will see tools and techniques for migrating your code base from various version control systems such as GitHub and SVN to GitLab. By the end of the book, you will be using Gitlab for repository management, and be able to migrate projects from other VCSs to GitLab.
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Summary

By now, you should have a firm grip on the basics of continuous integration and continuous delivery, as done by GitLab. We started out in this chapter by exploring the concept of CI/CD and giving you a crash course in it.

Next up, we ran through the process of installing a GitLab Runner. Don't forget that the Runner is the platform where your CI/CD stages are actually executed; you can have many of them per project or per GitLab installation to help parallelize the work. We looked at their installation on Ubuntu and CentOS, and manually installing one via a binary. This was followed up by configuring the Runner in the GitLab web UI and then registering it on the Runner host so that it knew which GitLab URL to connect to and set up the registration token it would need.

After we finished configuring Runners, we updated our sample project with some tests to give it a...

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